A bathroom makeover

I am joining MET Monday again this Monday and I want to thank Susan from

Between Naps on the Porch

for hosting this fun day! Click on the butterfly to be brought to Susan's wonderful blog

Okay … this is embarrassing, very embarrassing

I cannot even help but wonder

WHY

I am even showing this on my blog…

but yah take the good, yah take the bad and you go on…

BACKGROUND We live in a very small but cozy home which was my grandmas It is a duplex that is over 130 years old My parents live downstairs from us and they are our landlords…

this is a complete other story

There have been subtle changes that we made to our home but never anything too big because this home of ours is temporary until we buy our home

We were supposed to have moved to our new home by now but it FORTUNATELY fell through and we are looking again

In the meantime I had purchased goodies for the new place for almost every room The half bath was going to be a beach theme…

We LOVE the beach…One of our favorite places on earth is VA Beach Instead of letting all my goodies sit in boxes, I decided to Paint our TINY full bathroom (6x4) in a seashore theme The bathroom has beautiful harvest gold tile… ahem!

And stunning harvest gold fixtures… ahem!

The walls are horrendous! Peeling paint everywhere from improper paint being applied to a small and moist environment by other tenants before we moved in I painted the walls so many times I GIVE UP… The walls need to be completely redone by a professional, I am not one I scraped the paint off the wall, hey it was peeling anyway

Here it is...

I took a mauve, gold and cream color acrylic paint and with plastic gloves swirled and pounded the paint on the wall to look like the beach at sunset & sunrise…

bright gold and red and peach and pink and just... YUM!

The wall does remind me of the beach now… and it actually goes with the harvest gold fixtures LOL And when I add my picture and signs… not much of the wall even shows through It took me 1 hour from start to finish to complete this job… And here it is

The Seashell sign is from VA Beach for 3.00 The She Sell Seashell Sign is from CTS for 3.99 In the bathroom I have lime green towels and rugs and a white striped cabana looking shower curtain This picture above is a reminder of the hubby and I at the beach. I bought the frame for .25 and I shabbied it all up and then added this watercolor print that I bought from eBay for 12.95

Here is my favorite tin sign above. I bought it at KMART for 9.99 Green glass jar with sand, stones, beach glass and shells from VA beach... plus a cats meow and a beach chair The sink (look at the gold and faux marble) includes a Sand dollar in a lime green frame from the beach for 3.50 A ceramic striped cup and toothbrush holder I bought at a thrift shop at the beach the whole set including the tissue holder which I will show in a sec was 6.99 I shabbied the bottom of the cup and brush holder I also have my Willow Tree Woman from my hubby which I adore! This door knob hanger was a great find at Michael's 5 years ago for 1.00 each... 90% off!! I bought 3 of them and have used them ever since in my bathroom Maybe it is because I really like them they seem to fit in with each theme I do So there is my beach theme bathroom I really like it for now... until the fall when we get the professional to fix the walls!!! Maybe by then we will have moved into our new home... who really knows... either way I will be sure to take pictures of the new theme too!